“Tad socked him. Hard. Twice. Someday the bad guys would realize monologues were a bad thing.”

“I never said a bad word about him. The whole time the two of your were together. Not one bad thing.”

“Bad things cycle round and round. Those who were harmed seek to harm. Those who were blamed seek to blame. If we all choose to do otherwise, maybe someday it will stop.”

“The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him.”

“Can you believe it? They made me an ensign.""I didn't realize that things were going so bad.""Scary, isn't it?”

“He stared at Avery's socks and felt an odd sense of wonder. Socks were so normal. So mundane. How could someone who pulled on socks in the morning be a serial killer? Socks were not hard or dangerous. Socks were funny; foot mittens, that's what socks were. They made a knobbly hinge of your toes and became comical sock-puppets. Surely anyone who wore socks could not truly be a threat to him or anyone else?”